26/11 eve: JuD, banned groups hold anti-India rally in PoK

Hundreds of members of banned extremist and terror groups, including Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ud-Dawah, joined a rally in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir today to protest the government's move to normalise trade ties with India.

JuD leader Abdul Aziz Alvi, who was briefly detained by Pakistani authorities in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, told the protestors: "We will never accept this decision".

The rally was held in the main square of PoK capital Muzaffarabad.

Today's rally comes a day after similar protest was organised in Lahore yesterday.

At the rally in PoK, the protesters, mostly members of the LeT, JeM, JuD and Jamaat-e-Islami, shouted slogans against the Pakistan government and India.

They were joined by supporters of the main Opposition PML-N party.

protesters later blocked the main road in the centre of Muzaffarabad by burning tyres.